Did you catch the (textual) Allen Ginsberg reference near the beginning?
James and I re-watched the DVD for this tonight. Visit the composer's site for a synopsis. We both consider him one of the great geniuses of 20th century music, and think he should be much more famous.
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I've never heard of him. Just ordered "Dust" from Amazon. Thanks.....C
Cool! Glad to hear it, Colin. I saw the premiere of that opera here in NY.
pretty amazing, barry - and agree that more people should know his work.
Never noticed before, but he's on the composers' list form the NPR series "American Mavericks". I've picked up works from about a dozen artist from this list and have yet to be disappointed.....C
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/composers/